Comparing The Book 'Jake And Lady Brett In Ernest Hemingway's'

Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley both have a distinctive personality which make them memorable.. It could be said about Jake, Brett, and just about every other character in the book is immature Jake and Brett are both adults who could be mistaken as teenagers. Brett especially shows her immaturity by jumping around from guy to guy as she strives to complete her never ending sexual appetite. It obviously is not adult like for someone to use someone, especially if that person is willing to have a loving relationship and only want them for sexual activity. Jake wants an actual relationship but his negativity puts him down on the same level of immaturity as Brett. At one point Jake states, “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing” which sounds like a speech of defeat. Jake has an attitude that only bad actions happen (Hemingway 42). Lady Brett Ashley could be picked up as disrespectful in the novel. Although it is her
Again, she is in complete control of her love life but there are plenty of ways for her go about her rejections in a more kind manner. Brett’s disrespectful personality plays a big part in”[Jake’s wound], again with both literal and symbolic meanings . . . and [why he] cries in the night”(Young 13). Apathetic behavior also is a great section of Jake and Brett’s personality. Jake’s war experience mixed with his past love experiences and any other past events gives Jake an apathetic attitude. Even if someone were to ask him about his past he would show little interest. Jake would “speak loosely, emasculated in the war” (Young 13). The characters also do not show any sign of caring of how they are damaging their bodies with the amount of alcohol that they are taking in. Unlike Jake, Brett seems to have a more apathetic behavior relating to love hence the reason she sleeps with so many